The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will discuss Ehrlich’s legacy as it relates to the environmental movement and see if he has any peers in being wrong all...
His famous 1968 book, "The Population Bomb," changed the world. He famously predicted that human "overpopulation" would soon outstrip food supplies, leading to catastrophic famines, and societal collapse. He predicted that...
Dr. Wrong. The Population Bomb is the stuff of jokes as obesity has overtaken famine in the developed (non-statist) world–thanks to more, not less, people. Game, set, and match to Paul Ehlich’s intellectual foe, Julian...
The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment.
The CO2 fertilization effect is both real and substantial in both beneficial and harmful ways.
The poor should stay poor, to allow more for us. Hence the concept of "never-to-be-developed countries"
“The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.”
An optimistic view of future climate has a strong basis in settled science (CO2 fertilization, modest primary warming), just as climate pessimistic has a more speculative basis (as in debated feedback effects to elevate the...
Former NSW Premier Bob Carr thinks even thought Paul Ehrlich was wrong about global starvation and resource depletion, we should have listened to him.
Malthus, Ehrlich and The Club of Rome might have gotten everything wrong, but Waikato Professor Michael Cameron thinks we need to consider their work, and consider imposing curbs on population growth, if we want to prevent...
Guest “implied facepalm” by David Middleton Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can graspJanuary 13, 2021 12.00am Anyone with even a passing interest in…
What’s Natural column Guest post by Jim Steele, published in the Pacifica Tribune Wednesday December 18, 2019 Victims if 1876 Famine in India When I graduated high school in 1968 there were rampant predictions of environmental...
Address to the Alumni of Warrane College, University of New South Wales Academic Dinner, September 2017 Dr Howard Thomas Brady No matter our age we are all adapting to circumstance...
There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before population peaks at 10 billion...
Guest essay by Geoff Chambers “Ten Billion” by Stephen Emmott – a 120-page paperback Ehrlich-style Doomfest – is due out in the next few days, published by Vintage in the USA and Penguin in the UK...
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